Rough box for burial-caskets.



No. 709,423. v

P. D. SKAHEN.

ROUGH BOX FOR BURIAL GASKETS.

(Application flled Mar. '17, 1902.)

Patented Sept. l6, I902.

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PATRICK D. SKAHEN, OF SYRACUSE, NElV YORK.

ROUGH BOX FOR BURlAL-CASKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,423, dated September 16, 1902.

Application filed March 17, 1902. Serial No- 98,590- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICKD. SKAHEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, inthe State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Rough 'Boxes for Burial-Gaskets, of which the following, taken annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of a rough box embodying my invention, a portion of the lid being broken away to show the reinforcingband of the top portion of the rough box.

I Fig. 2 is avertical transverse section on line X X in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal transverse section on line Y Y in Fig. 1. Fig. 4

.is an inverted plan view of one end portion of the lid. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a corner portion of .the rough box; and Figs. 6 and 7 are plan views, respectively, of an end portion of the blanks from which the rough box and its lid are formed:

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents my improved rough box, which is constructed from one piece of suitable sheet metal, preferably boiler-iron, which is cut into the form of a blank, consisting of a rectangular central section 1, constituting the a bottom of the box, side sections 2 2, extending along the entire length of the central section and forming the side walls of the box,

and end sections 3, extending from said cenalong the dotted lines 5 5.

tral section, as illustrated in Fig.6 of the drawings, and forming the end walls of the r box. The ends of the side sections 2 2 are slitted, as shown at 4 l, to allow the end margins 6 to be bent up and side margins of said side sections to be bent back at right angles The end margins 9 of the end sections 3 are also bent back at right angles along the lines 10. In forming the rough box from said blank the side sechorizontally outward, while the margins 6 6 are slipped onto the inner sides of the end sections 3 3 and are riveted thereto, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. The horizontal marginal portions 7 7 and 9 9 form outward flanges a a to serve as seats for the lid 0 and at the same time stifien the top portions of the walls of the box, which I further reinforce by a stout metal band b, embracing the box directly under the flanges a a and riveted to the box. The top edge of the band I) abuts against the under side of the flange ctto more securely support said flange in horizontal position. The lid 0, I also form from a blank cut out of boiler-iron or other suitable sheet metal, one of the end portions of which blank is illustrated in Fig. 7 of the drawings, and consists of a rectangular central section 11, surrounded by margins 12 and 13, which are bent up at right angles along the dotted lines 14 and 15 to form downwardly projecting flanges c c on the lid. The mar gins 12 are slitted on lines in range with the dotted lines- 15 to permit the margins to be bent as aforesaid and the ends 16 of the margins 13 to be folded and riveted onto the exteriors of the flanges c 0, formed of the margins 12, as illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The central section 11 of the lid-blank is of a proper length and width to cause the flanges c c of the lid to engage the edges of the outward flanges a a of the box A, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Said engagement prevents lateral displacement of the. lid on the box when released from the bolts 15, which pass through the lid and flanges a a and fasten the lid when required.

e 6 denote a packing which is interposed between the lid and top of the flanges a a to hermetically seal the box.

To the bottom of the interior of the box is bolted or otherwise firmly secured a board f for fastening thereto, when necessary, by

screws (not shown) the casket, (indicated by dotted lines h h.)

To the exteriors of the sides of the box and to one end of the lid are attached stout handles g and g to afford safe holds for the hands of the persons carrying the box and for liftthrough said lapping parts, the top portions ing the lid therefrom. of saidwalls bent horizontally outward and What I claim is' forming the seat of the lid, 2. metal band em- Arough box for burial-casket formed from bracing the box and abutting with its top 15 a sheet-metal blank which consists of a fecedge against the under side of said seat, and tangular central section constituting the botrivets fastening said band to the box substantom of the box, side and end' sections bent tially as set forth and shown.

up from the central section and constituting PATRICK D. SKAHEN. [L. 8.] the side and end walls of the box, the ends Witnesses: of the side walls bent at right angles and J. J. LAAss,

lapped onto the end walls, rivets passing WM. H. MEIER, Jr. 

